Two takeaways from this: 1) Pressure works - they'd no choice in the end due to outrage 2) Just how morally bankrupt the Conservatives have become. They've always been awful but this is next level! BBC News - Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

It follows a backlash against the party's decision to pick Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate in Somerset.

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They're ignorant, poisonous, and entitled in equal measure. These people are an embarrassment to our country and we need to let them know at every opportunity!

Northern & proud 👊@gazlancs.bsky.social · yesterday

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡

I'm not always on board with the English FA, but this is really positive. Well done to them and the Welsh FA, and I hope this encourages other national associations to do the same. BBC News - Gianni Infantino: FA set to withdraw support for Fifa president - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Gianni Infantino: FA set to withdraw support for Fifa president

The English Football Association is set to write to Fifa president Gianni Infantino withdrawing its support amid the fallout from his scrapped plans to sell off stakes in Fifa competitions to private ...

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BBC News - Reform UK's Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. 😏

Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog

Reform's deputy leader is being investigated about an allegation he failed to declare an interest.

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In the United Kingdom, Covid resulted in 25,118,310 cases, and 232,112 deaths up to 26 January 2025. But go ahead and pretend it is something you can "just ask questions" about. Your podcast can go to hell. Please, my friends, stop listening to podcasts by people who know nothing but want clicks.

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 5d ago

“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.

Solidarity with the LGBTQ community, you're loved and it's up to all of us to celebrate you and ensure that the ignorant bigots don't win in their attempts to marginalise you or criminalise you. 👊🙂👋.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 4d ago

Hundreds of thousands attend Pride events in UK and mainland Europe after deadly Berlin attack

Can Trump trust Burnham? I'm sorry, what? What a bizarre and inappropriate question. Trump is the one who can't be trusted, and the whole world (apart from the cultists and fascists) knows it! 😡

#TuckFrump@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 4d ago

Can Trump trust the UK's 7th Prime Minister in 10 years? #AlterNet

I don't think this is right. They kill people because they're evil and their uniform has given them the opportunity to kill people. They're all bigoted, whether it's racism, misogyny, homophobia, or in most cases a combination of multiple intolerances, and now they can oppress and kill folk.

Miaganga@miaganga.bsky.social · 5d ago

This was a beautiful moment of karma at a grim time, and it's put a smile on my face seeing it again. 😊

Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 6d ago

It is two years today since this dimwit gave us the most hilarious demonstration of karma in history.

Honestly, just when I think my contempt for FIFA couldn't get any stronger, they come out with this. Utterly outrageous! Well done UEFA, all other regions MUST follow suit BBC News - World Cup: Uefa furious at reports Fifa plan to sell stakes in tournament - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

World Cup: Uefa furious at reports Fifa plan to sell stakes in tournament

European football's governing body Uefa reacts furiously to proposals from Fifa to seek private investment in its competitions, including the World Cup.

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Just another example of the cringey subsection of our society that has had every advantage, has a massive sense of entitlement, very little self-awareness, and is permanently bitter. These are awful people and any patience I had with them ran out long ago.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Fortunately I've never been a fan of Boy George, but it's still gut wrenching when someone with their profile shows themselves up to be a horrendous person. Get in the bin George! 😏

It's such short term thinking. The less coverage we're able to watch, the less interest there'll be in the event. It's already a dwindling festival of sport, this could be the death knell for what was once a lovely balance between competition and friendship (though with colonial origins).

Pru Madeley@prum.bsky.social · last wk.

How ironic that a huge American company, which has nothing to do with the Commonwealth , is able to outbid everyone to broadcast the Commonwealth Games, rendering many of us unable to view a major sporting event we are hosting!! But we must all kow tow to the market ugh.

Brilliant, they should never have to be in that position but they responded perfectly. Were no white kids involved because there are none in that neighborhood, they didn't want to get involved, or they they are comfortable with the ICE operations? 🤔 It's such an awkward question isn't it? 😕

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 2w ago

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

Easy to say, harder to do, but we need to hold him to this commitment. (Some) other national leaders are doing it, he can and should do it too.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last wk.

Laura Kuenssberg, "Do you think you can trust President Donald Trump?" Andy Burnham, "I've had one phone call, it was a good exchange" "I will judge people as I find them" Laura Kuenssberg, "You'd be willing to call Donald Trump out if you think that's the right thing?" Andy Burnham, "Of course"

Thing about Project25 is that it's a tiny minority of truly awful people pushing bigoted oppression. There should be 51% against already, how can any women support them? Then there's non-christions, LGBTQ folk, disabled people, poor, unemployed, etc etc, but nobody seems to be taking them seriously😕

Jax (the original)@jacqueline321.bsky.social · 2w ago

BBC News - Police investigate donations by Tice company to Reform UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Ok good, it feels overdue but glad that it's happening. 🍿🙂🍿

Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK

Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.

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*sigh* Aren't you at the stage where you need to get on the streets and stay there America? If not... after everything that's happened and continues to happen, what WILL get out there? It looks like you're losing your country and every day makes it harder to get it back, it's heartbreaking. 💔

Honestly, this is beautiful. I can't wait for him and his equally gruesome brother to be extradited back here, tried and given life sentences for the horrific crimes they've committed. Justice for their victims is long overdue and it will send the perfect message to any awful Tate wannabes out there

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2w ago

In Another Instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” 🤭😂🥴 Andrew Tate: "England, come get me. I'm not hard to find. I'm in Beverly Hills." THEY FOUND HIS B!TCH A$$ FAST 😂😂😂

All the American communists still alive could fit in a Denny's with tables to spare.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump says communists are trying to blow up Mount Rushmore

This is a great message...now how are you all going to achieve this?

Rep. Jim McGovern@repmcgovern.bsky.social · 2w ago

WE WILL STOP FASCISM. 🇺🇸

I'm not going into my thoughts on Man City here, it's just good to see a top club on Bluesky. I hope all other clubs, national sides, other sports, musicians, political parties etc. follow suit (and get off that fascist app)...oh, and happy birthday Erling! 🙂👍

Manchester City@mancity.com · 2w ago

Stop everything you're doing, it's Erling Haaland's birthday today 🩵🎂

If you're wearing the new glasses, could you please hang a large, clearly legible sign to that effect around your neck, so I will know to stay away from you? Oh, and stay out of doctors' offices and everywhere else people's privacy is supposed to be protected.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2w ago

If you’re wearing the new glasses, we want to know more about how you’re using them. We’d also like to hear from people about how they feel about others around them wearing the glasses

It's great that Bylines are flagging these places up. I went to a Repair Cafe in Mytholmroyd and got my coffee machine fixed last year. These places are great, a lovely example of community spirit and togetherness, and an opportunity to repair all sorts of things rather than throwing them away.

Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 2w ago

Fix It Café in Darlington The Fix It Café is run by people who like fixing things and want to share their knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...

A victory for football, well done Spain... and Argentina react in an entirely predictable manner. The good guys and the genuine footballers won today.

Vamooooooossssss!!!!!! Get in.

Please god let Spain get a winner soon, I can't take another half an hour of this. 😏

Half time is for reviewing the match with the people around you, and maybe popping into the concourse for a pie and a pint. You're holding up play now, stop this nonsense and get on with the match! #worldcup

While in the name of football, we all want the obvious team to win, there would also be something entirely fitting about this World Cup - defined by shameless corruption, pervasive greed, institutional cowardice and flagrant racism - being won by a team of outright cheats.

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju... Honestly, this has made my day. Send them back to us and let them face justice for the horrific crimes they've committed. They're a danger to women and girls, and a poison to a gullible subsection of young males. I hope they rot in prison.

Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami on UK charges of rape and sex trafficking

Britain to seek extradition over alleged sexual exploitation, ‘extreme pornography’, assault and indecent images of a child

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